Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-04-07
CURRENT TOPICS.

Sended on trays in New York.
| IN india there are four female mission.
aries TO every million Of women
DIAMONDS arc found in two Georgia coun.
ues and gold in Gfty-six counties.
wELL3coo feet deep is to be bored in
the City of Mexico in search of oil.
| ALL the railroads are looking sharp to
their bridges. It's a good investment
NEwBuRo On Y, maiden chewed too
@ucn gum and lost control OF her jaw
SALT is selling for Ifty-onc cents a barrel
IN Michigan, with the barrel thrown in.
EMPEROR WILLIAM planted "A chestnut
tree In the palace garden on his birthday.
TnE best modern siege guns cost sq7.ooo
ana u costs 500 10 shoot one of them only
| once.
| A PHYSICIAN sits at the bedside OF Em-
| peror William watching while the mon
arch sleeps
| BALTIMORE is now supplied with nlumin-
slng gas at thirty-fiye cents per one thou.
| sand cubic feet sa1
| IHR Beecher farm at Peekslxiu. now Of
! Tered for sale, is valued AT $4,000. The
house cost $4,000.
Tn; Illinois Legislature has passed a
Dill reducing legal fares from three cents
mile TO two cents.
| The German Reichstag has adjourned
Tor the Easter holidays, and will resume
IT'S sittings April 70.
GEO. w. CnlLDs will present to the West
Point Military Academy q life-sizc paint
ing OF General Grant
The State OF Iowa has Just built herself
a new capitol and has done il within the
| original appropriation.
GERMAN entomologist declares that
spiders destroy moro insect enemies than
90 all insect eating birds.
Inc Empress Eugeuic is said 10 be con-
tempiating tour through the United
States, travelling incognito.
DANvILLE, Va, has caught the boom
She is building street railroads, water
works and laying of parks.
THE New York Legislature is asked 10
pass bill making II misdemeanor To
jump OF the Brooklyn bridge
ToADs are an article OF merchandise in
Paris, being kept in tubs and sold at the
rate OF two francs per dozen.
A LAW has Just been enacted In Con.
nectieut prohibiting railway travel be-
tween pa. IN and p m. on Sundays.
MEETING OF Hebrews held in Brooklvn
recently contributed S2,U5g for the monu-
ment 10 the late Rev Henry Ward
Beechcr.
The Louisville Courio.-,Jou,nol thinks the
Gar OF Russia would be happier man as
the agent OF some durable clothes
wringer.
Lulu WILLIAMS, a child Of eleven years,
is an applicant FOR divorce in an Omaha
court on the ground Of cruelty and failure
TO support.
BILL which has passed the Connecticut
Legislature. provides that cider which has
commenced fermentation shall be subject
to the license law.
THE death rate in New Yorl, is now said
TO be dwindled TO seven hundred "a week.
To bury this numberthe city has one thou
sand undcrtakers
THE Puritant rose, the latest production
OF the queen or 1owers, has q cou,pact
blossom, is Of a delicate creamy white. and
will last for days.
THE latest advices from the volcano of
Mauna Loa are that the iow OF lava which
was recently uphcaved from the md ocean
furnace had ceased
a WRITER of vigorous American prose
describes q school girl out i'm the cold
world "as minnow among a school of
saw-toOthed piclxerel.p
THE Chinese are said 10 manufacture an
anGsthetic not unlike cocaine I'm its action
and claim that the anHsthetic property is
the juice OF the eye Of the frog
OSCAR s. SrHoUs, the ncwly-appointed
Minister TO Turkey is a native OF Georgia.
He was born in Talbotton end resided
there until he was eleven years old.
JONI WASSANAKER, the Philadelphia
merchant, carries a life insurance oi $50.
900. J. y. Stetson. Of tho Same CITY. bas
t5l50OO, and Hamilton Disston 10000.
THE proprietor Of q Broad street bucket
shop has been arrested and hold for trial
IN New York court, the evident intent
being 70 settle the legal status Of his "busi-
ness"
a GLASGOW merchant asked Queen vic
toria 70 accept jubilee gift Of a cheese
weighing five tons and made from the
milk Of $500 Canadian COWS. bat she de
ciiued.
KwoH HAo the young Emperor OF China.
who has been declared "of age" 40 sixteen
has assumed the full reins Of government
His name signifies Continuation Of
Glory"
SEVERAL books Of county records tn
Iowa, which had lonk been missing. vcrc
recently found in a Davenport saloon
whore they had been pawned for liquor by
former official.
OvEn s2J,O0OOOO has been contributed 90
the colleges Of this country bv twenty
men Three ~ theso twenty Stephen
Girard, Johns Hopkins and Asa Packer
gave over slAO0JOO0
TnE state Department ismuoh exercised
over tho premature publication Of the tx
tradition Treaty with Russia, and eGOrts
viii be madc 70 discover the methods bt
which 10 was made public.
EMPHRoR WILiAN received igf4 teIe.
grams cougratulating him upon his birth
day anniversary OF these 1eq7 came
from different parts Of Germany. sizty
from America and FIVE from Canada. The
others arc not accounted Tor
SIDNEY BsHrLErr. one of Boston's best
known lawyers. is cighty-eight years ol5.
get bis bodily strength is little impaired
and he is said never % have exhibited
greater Intellectual vig0r than in recent
argument SO an important case that ho
was conducting.
To NsEI the growing scarcity o. whale
bono and iis consequent Increased cost.
various substitutes have been brought for
ward among the most recent "a The en-
ployment Of geese aud turkeys quilts.
factory for this kind of manufacture hav
ing boon established in Michigan.
CArrnv Nt1Has APfLEroS is credited
..,ff1, ft4o erlfs..aafior that the ronuIe ~ tho